Brush



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. i

DAVID N. MAXON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BRU'SH.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,016, dated May 26, 1'891.

Application filed March 25, 1890. Serial No. 345,260. (No model.)

To ct/Z whom it may concern;

Bc itknown that I, DAVID N. MAXON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Attachment for Brushes, of which the following,` is a full, true, and exact description, reference being had to the acconipanying drawings.

My invention relates to an attachment for brushes, more particularly that class used in applying liquids, and has for its object to prevent dripping from the brush of the liquid in use. As is well known, a brush when used in applying` a liquid soon becomes saturated with the liquid, which runs down over the body of the brusli,tl1en droppingto the surface below. To remedy this obj ectonable feature I employ a cup or receptacle attached to the body of the brush, into which the liquid runs and is retained. This cup or receptacle is formed by the combination of the different parts hereinafter shown and described.

Iam aware that Letters Patent have been granted in which a receptacle is attached to the handle of the brush but such devices are not the equivalentof my improved device.

My invention will be readily understood by reference to the accoinpanying drawings, in which- Figure l shows a perspective view of a brush with the parts broken away, showing one form of my invention; Fig. 2, a section view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a brush-body embodyingmy improvement..

lVith reference to the letters, A represents the body of the brush, and O a portion of the body A cut down, leaving the shoulder B. To this shoulder B is attached an encircling band of metal or other suitable material,

which, being` elevated by the shoulder B from the surface at C, fornis with the body O the receptacle or chainber E adjacent to the brush material, into which the liquid flows. W'hen the brush is lowered for replenishing, the liquid in the receptacle will be emptied into the receptacle holding the original liquid.

It is obvious that this shoulder B can be formed in various ways, and I do not restrict myself to a shoulder being a part of the body of the brush, as an encirclin;r band of any thick material can be placed upon the body of any brush of this class and will offer an elevated surface, to which the encircling band D can be attached.

Fig. 3 shows the body and part of the handle of a brush with the shoulder I as a part of the body, but with rounded ends, as the ends are shown Square in Fig. l, so'that my invention may be more readily understood.

I am aware of Patent No. 151,223, granted to F. Hubbard under date of May 26, 1874, which shows a brush-handle having a dripcup formed wholly of metal and as an article of manufacture wholly independent of the bruslrhandle, but secured to the handle by means of a ferrule integral with the metal cup. Such construction I do not claim in my application.

It will be seen that I have described in effect the handle portion only of the brush, with the handle portion provided with a cup, and as these handles are ordinarily an article of manufacture independent of the brush I desire also to secure my rights to the bruslrhandie as an article of manufacture.

Having` thus described my invention, what I claiin as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

A brushhandle having an in tegral enlarged or head portion and an integral reduced portion, forminga shoulder, and the encircling band around said head portion, the said band, reduced portion, and shoulder forining a cup for the reception of liquid, substantially as specified.

In testiinony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing wtnesses.

DAVID N. MAXON.

Witnesses:

ANTHONY GREF, WM. A. PoLL'ooK. 

